Flirting With Lesbians….and more

I used to go to a weekly social gathering of the British Columbia Science Fiction Fan Association called FRED. If you were polite, and most weren’t, it stood for:

Forget Reality–Enjoy Drinking.

As a new female to the group, I was the subject of some discussion and finally, one lone male ventured towards the group of gals I was sitting with and hit on me. At the time, the early 90’s, there seemed to be only two pick up lines– “Can I rub your back?” and “Which do you like better, Classic or NextGen?”

The sacrificial male used the latter. Not ever having been particularly interested in the Star Trek universe, I said brightly “V.”

Flirtation forgotten, the guy recoiled in horror, sputtering, “The only thing that you could have said that would have been worse would be-”